Sorry if this is too off-topic. The DNS servers here are already down 3 days and my mod_perl books are in a storage room.
I am updating and expanding OpenBSD's lpr/lpd to newer code and adding things such as IPP and better security, etc. Oracle did IPP using Apache a long time ago. I want to go ahead and get things written and tested on Apache first, since I know it. For this I will write new code and temporarily use some existing modules for the functions they offer. But existing modules are almost all object oriented, so I will need to ditch that and write code that can be converted to C at some point (or maybe not). So how does my handler module get interpreted and used and re-used after starting the server? Is it turned into C code or something else? Sorry, I'd search for some material, but if I can't use an IP address, most sites won't come up. If someone has an address where I can download source with just an IP address, I would appreciate it. An example of one thing that needs doing. Most programs assume that lp is the printer to print to. Period. The printcap file can be filled with all the options for each printer(s), but only lp will be used. Being able to dynamically change printer lp to have the values from printer aps4 and running lpc to update things would be great. Change from 300x300 to 1200x1200 would be fantastic when using a program that offers no options for running lpr. Being able to run this from the command line or a nice web browser page would make life easy. You can reply to me off-list if this should not be on the mailing list. Thanks Chris Bennett
